Surgery: Cape Town's Second

Like most South Africans, regardless of
color and social status, Clive Haupt was stirred by Louis Washkansky's
heart transplant. When Washkansky died, Garment Worker Haupt, 24, said
to a neighbor: "I hope the next transplant succeeds." If the
statement was obvious and unremarkable then, it soon gained poignancy.
For the next transplant involved Haupt's own heart.

While Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard was visiting the U.S. during
Christmas week, he got reports from Cape Town that the patient next in
line for a transplant, Philip Blaiberg, 58, was getting weaker. Several
coronary occlusions had compelled Blaiberg to give up his practice...